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COMBINED SEAT AND CANE.

No. 393,160. Patented Nov. 20, 1888 N PETERS, Prwmum m hen wumngw'n. b.c.

NITED, STATES PATENT Fries.

CARL LANGE, OF NEU WE ISSENSEE, NEAR BERLIN, GERMANY.

COMBINED SEAT AND CANE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,160, dated November20, 1888.

Application filed March 2, 1887. Serial No. 229,466. (No model.)Patented in Belgium January 31, 1887. No. "15,944 in France June 6,1887, No. 181,048, and in Austria-Hungary June 21, 1887, No. 4,751 andNo. 25,356.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL LANGE, of Non Weissensee, near Berlin, in theKingdom of Prussia, and German Empire, have invented a newand usefulCombined Seat and Cane, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, no patentsbeing obtained by me anywhere for this invention, save in Austria-Hungary, No. 4,751 and No. 25,356, dated June 21, 1887; Belgium, No.75,944, dated January 31, 1887; France, No. 181,048, dated June 6, 1887.

My invention relates to a combined seat and cane, the handle, the upperand lower parts of which can be dismounted, whereby the upper partforms, when taken to pieces, a frame upon which is-tightened a net.

Figure 1 shows the combined seat and cane in a longitudinal section;Fig. 2, the upper part when the cane is dismounted arranged as seat inplan; Fig. 3, the same in a cross-section on line 3 s; Fig. 4, the lowerpart of the cane with the ferrule and the spring 9. Fig. 5 representsthe handle. Fig. 6 shows an iron leg-disk, such as may be fastened onthe legs of the frame. Fig. 7 shows a cross-section through the combinedseat and cane on line a 5; Fig. 8, a cross-section. Fig. 9.is a frontview of the lower part of the cane with spring {1 caught in the opening1; of leg I). Fig. is a front view of a portion of one of the legs.

The exterior shape of this combined seat and cane does not differ in anyway from a common cane. It can be dismounted in an upper and lower part.The former is made of gas-pipe and hoop-iron, and consists of threesingle legs, a b 0, connected to each other by a common trunnion, d, alittle below the middle of thelegs. On the upper end of this part thereis tightened, by means of little screws, a net, 0, made of strong laces.YVhen using the cane, this net 6 will serve as a seat after said upperpart has been dismounted into a frame, Fig. 2. To prevent the frame fromsticking or sinking into the soft ground, there are fixed on the lowerend of the legs little disks, Fig. 6, which oppose a larger surface tothe pressure. The three legs of the upper part may be pressed togetherin such a way as to form a part of cane that shows a roundcross-section, Fig. 3. On the upper end of this part (lettered 0) thuspressed together there will be fixed, in case the combined seat and caneis to be used as a cane, the lower part, U, with ferrule, Figs. 1 and 4.This latter is composed of a wooden stick and a thin walled tube, n,arranged upon it, which, when the legs a b 0 have been pressed together,fits closely on over the leg ends of the upper part, thus keeping themtogether. In order to prevent the lower part, U, falling off the upperpart, there is fixed on the lower part a spring-catch, 9, that is placedinto one of the hollow legs, 5, and catches into an opening, 1', in thesame, Fig. 9, in such manner that the upper part, 0, and the lower part,U, are connected to each other. The net fastened to the upper part will,after the combined seat and cane has been put together, be placed in thehandle k. This handle is hollowed out and can be taken off the upperpart, 0, or fixed on it by means of the bayonet-closure Z. The hollowhandle is just large enough to receive the leg-disks f, Fig. 6, also,and it may be given any other shape different from the present one. Bypressing the spring-catch g the lower part, U, can be removed from theupper part, 0.

Figs. 8 and 10 show the manner in which the trunnion d is inserted intothe legs a b c. This is effected by boring a hole, z, into each of thelegs near the hole m for one arm of the trunnion d. The hole 2, which issomewhat larger than the balls of the trunnion, is provided with ascrew-thread and communicates with the boring a, so that the totalboring in the band shows an egg shape. The trunnion, with a ball, isintroduced through the hole z and moved until its arm is held in thehole 00. Then the hole 2 is closed by a short pin, 2', fitted with anexterior thread. Thus the trunnion is tightly secured to the one leg,and in i the same way it is inserted into the other legs.

This new combined seat and cane shows very 5 important advantages whencompared to the well-known camp-cane. In the first place it does notdiffer in the least in its exterior shape from a common cane, its weightalso being only a very little more than that of a common IOO cane. Thereare further adapted to it all the necessary parts requisite to offer acomfortable seat.

, What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is-

1. A eombined seat and cane composed of upper part, 0, consisting of thethree legs a b 0, under part, U, and handle 76, as set forth, the underpart, U, having a thin Walled tube 2. In a combined seat and cane havingup per part, .0, consisting 0fthe three legs a b 0, under part, U, andhandle k, as described, I 5 the disk f on the lower end of legs a b c,substantially as, described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twoWitnesses.

CARL LANGE.

fitting loosely over the ends of the legs a b e, Witnesses: and thespring catching into the opening 2' DR. BRAOKEBUSCH,- in the hollow legZ), substantially as described. I B. ROI.

